The family of Britain's Princess Diana said today it was "shocked and sickened" by a US television network's decision to show pictures of her taken as she lay dying in a Paris road tunnel.
CBS yesterday showed photocopies of pictures of the princess at the scene of her death at 37 in a 1997 car crash.
The pictures were obtained from a file held by French authorities, who seized them from photographers racing behind Diana's Mercedes, the TV show, 48 Hours Investigates, said.
"Lord Spencer and his family are shocked and sickened by CBS's actions," said a statement from Diana's brother, Earl Charles Spencer.
But CBS defended the decision to show the photographs, saying they were "placed in a journalistic context - an examination of the medical treatment given to Princess Diana just after the crash - and are in no way graphic or exploitative".
The CBS programme looked at evidence gathered in the French investigation of the crash but does not appear to have revealed many new details of a story that has been told and retold countless times in the last seven years.
A summary of the French evidence was published in 1999 and concluded that Diana died because her driver, Henri Paul, was drunk. Mr Paul and Diana's partner, Dodi al Fayed, were also killed.
Britain began an inquest into Diana's death this year, with evidence due to be heard next year.